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I scored 2 Parker 51 Specials for a whopping $2.50 ea :) Not a pen I would normally look for or buy, but at that price I couldn't see a down side. Turns out they are both fully functional and write...

Now that I only take the Lamy to work I just clip it onto my apron. When I'm out in the world I usually carry my Pilot VP clipped to the coller of my shirt. I don't dress up so a tshirt collar works...

My avg pen was in the $150 range and for years I never lost one of them, in fact I still have them. I got the Lamy, big hands.., for a work pen that I didn't have to worry about.

Just like razors...

9 times out of 10 a converter holds much less ink than a cartrige. And some pens just don't have a converter available for them. The Preppy has a converter but it costs twice the amount as the pen...

I just got a call that my '40 Sheaffer is done :) there are a few great people out there that specialize in different pens, the guy that did mine is well knowen for his work on old Sheaffers. I know...

It's a good start :) I got into FP's for many reasons but one was to get me to slow down my writing so it would almost be readable lol

WHoo hoo , I just got word that my Sheaffer Balance with a bold nib has been repaired :) It was touch and go about the nib getting re-welded or replaced but it seems like the reweld was a success :) ...

While I do not have a MB pen I have followed numberous threads about ink safty in pens. 99% of needlers inks are fine with these pens, big ugly debate rage about the BayState line of inks though...
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Very nice :)


So What inks you getting for them :)

Mont Blanc does make a very nice pen, their special additions are pretty cool :p

I think pens off ebite are harder to figure out than razors with fuzzy pics :p

The Goulet Pen Company

Not affiliated at all, just a happy addict :p This couple has built the buisness from scratch and just opened a brick and morter store. Check out the Platinum Preppy line of...

That is what hailed the "new" pen onto the market, Carbon Copy and multi page copies, FP's just have a heck of a time dealing with em. However there are a few pens and more notably Nibs that deal...

Speaking of Ink... :p

Noodler's
Black Swan in Austrailian Roses
#41 Brown 2012
Walnut
Fox Red
Whiteness of Whale
Hunter Green
Benevolent Badger Blue

Lamy are hard to beat for the buck, another one that is pretty good for the $$ is the Platinum Preppy at about $5 ea and very sturdy they are the kind of pen you can have laying around the office and...

Noodler's is a one man show, Nathan doesn't have a problem speaking his mind and as popular as his inks are he doesn't have to curb his behaviours to suit sales :p Most of my 20+ inks are Noodlers...

A while back I picked up a Lamy with a Bold nib and have really been liking the fat line of ink quite a bit :) My 1940's Sheaffer balance is still in the shop getting a repair, no clue when it will...

The Fountain Pen Network

here is a place I hang out once in a while. Just like here but with pens, you have way to many choices to get lost in :p

FP's are one of my other Focus Points. Even though I have more inks than pens lol. I only have a few pens, couple Sheaffer triumph nibs, Pilots, and parker 51's. I picked up the 51's because they...

My collection of parker Hooded nib pens... Figures as I was more interested in Sheaffer pens and I end up finding Parkers... Oh well...

Wow nice pens there :)

My current pens...

Pilot Vanaishing Point M Silver
Pilot Custom 74 F Demo
Parker UK Lady M burgandy
Shaeffer 1940's Desk pen (looking for the right base)
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Nice :)

So many pens out there that I have never seen :p But I have had my head pretty much stuck on the Japanese pens.

I just picked up a UK Parker Lady with a wet M nib. Just after writing...

Ya the snail mail thing is like a pen pal thing. Just using the fountain pen and various inks :)

I'll have to look at the Knight to see what nib it has.

In general Japanese F M B sized nibs are one step lower than western nibs but that also is not regulated at all, so even in the same make...

I bought this pen a while ago, about 2 years ago. Yes the fine nib works great in the books that accept the ink haha. Many cooks bade today are water resistant (for some reason :p )